Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-08-11
SEWSY NOTES.

TO be OF.
New York's oldest letter carrier has been
on the force 40 years.
John s. Barhcur's sister-the wife Of Geo.
G.. Thompson Oh t'ulPcPper-ls dead.
SUNDAY will lc the anniversary of Ore
CONS admission as Territory IN rs.
Ex-speaker Carlisle's daughter Mildred
is they say, the prettiest girl at White Sui
phur.
Ms. Cleveland has taken to lib. dumb
bells as a brace-up for next seasons hand
Texas last week sat down on the proposo,
ed prohibition amendments by some oOooV
majority.
The Farmers Assembly of Virginia want
Congress to abolish the tax on tobacco ana
fruit brandy.
Hon. Joseph Davis, of Boston, Mass, has
given $500 to the Confederate Soldiers
Home at Richmond.
Gen. Sam Jones of the Department OF
Justice at Washington is dead aged ~. lie
was in the Southern army.
Mrs. Cleveland and her mother are spend
ing few weeks at Marion village, Mass
the guests Of signal Officer Greedy
The agricultural chemists meet In 4th an
nual convention at the Agricultural De-
partment, Washington, next Tuesday.
Augusta. Ga, was three fourths under
water Monday wee k-the result OF ne 9Ni
rains. Damage to property about elOl,qV9'
The Illinois club of Chicago gives its
dinners on table 10 by 6 feet made oil a
single plank of the California redwood tree,
Railroad Commissioner Hill, of Va, was
in Page county last week investigating all
legged freight discrimination by the ). V.
r. r.
Mrs. Laura NJ. Morrill,, widow of VIM. L.
Morrill,. an Alex. Confed soldier died In
Washington She was daughter OF the
late j. ". Masoa Of CLARKE county.
The U. 5. Str. Antietam built at Phila-
dclphia in '67 and used for years as store
ship at the League Island navy yard is
sinking in the back channel there-a rot
zen hulk.
Miss sailie CARROLL, daughter of A. NJ
Carroll of Ronceyerto, w. Va, vas fatally
injured IN a rail mishAp near Greenwood,
Va. last week and died at Charlottesville
on Friday.
The Georgia legislature has passed by
IA to bill making it penal to educate
white and caloYed children in the same
schools. The negative votes were those oil
negro members.
C. l.. Knicely of Woodstock and X. A.
Grandstafr of Edinburg, Va, rode their bl,
cycies from Woodstock to Martinsburg and
back, lO5 miles, against storm IN "
hours and IS minutes.
The Lutheran church near Strouchsburg,
Pa, was burned in recent storm. Its
cornerstone was laid in l743 and the ediilce
las rebuilt in 1888. 1t was one of the
oldest Lutheran churches in the country
The japanese minister nj Washington
has offered 90 employees in the Government
Printing Office $4,000 a year for years
and their expenses to go to Toxic and en-
ter the new government printing oihce
there.
Pardon Worsiey, "the Union spy of the
Shenandoah" died at his home at Foster:
brook, n. Y, last week aged 81. Disguised
as a peddler he tramped thro' Virginia as q
spy on Mosby under orders from Gen. c. G.
Augur and once barely escaped death at
Mosby's hands.
The stsa1 barge John w. Garrett, the
largest vessel ever built in this country, was
launched by the Harlan & Hollingsworth
Co., at Wilmington, Del, last week, She
is 366 feet in length and 76 feet at the wi
dest pssi, carries thirty freight aud fifteen
passenger cars ut t,sS, and is for use in
transferring b. & o. trains from Locust
Point to Canton at Baltimore.
i is proposed to establish a chair of po-
litical economy and social science i'll Wash
ington and Lee University, Lexington. Va,
with Ex- Congressman John Randolph Tuck
er as its occupant. Mr.. Tucker was at the
head of the law school in this institution
when first elected to Congress in 1874, and
continued to be member of the faculty
throughout his twelve years of continuous
service in Congress.